The pace of regulatory change, combined with great uncertainty in financial markets, demanding investors and competition for talent has brought fresh challenges to asset managers. Minimising legal risk and at the same time keeping a commercial perspective is critical in today’s environment.

Whatever support you require, we are committed to delivering integrated, high quality legal advice across our specialist areas of expertise, in a manner which is focused, commercial and grounded in the market in which you operate.

FUNDS

• Establishment and restructuring
• IMAs and Related Asset Management Documentation
• Termination and winding up

REGULATORY

• Marketing
• Compliance: AIFMD, Market Abuse, MiFID, EMIR, Benchmarking, Conflicts of Interest
• Risk advice

CORPORATE & PARTNERSHIPS - MANAGEMENT VEHICLES

• Establishing corporate structure
• Constitutional documents and equity ownership (Shareholders’ Agreements and LLP Members’ Agreements)
• Ongoing operation, management and corporate governance
• M&A and strategic transactions (including team moves, equity transfers and external investors)
• Reorganisations

TAX

• UK tax advice relating to investment funds
• Transactions, fund formation, relocation to the UK
• Restructuring management equity holdings in investment funds

EMPLOYMENT

• Employment contracts, remuneration packages and executive immigration
• Employment and bonus disputes
• Enforcing restrictive covenants, extracting prospective employees from competing businesses

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

• Dispute avoidance and resolution
• Investor claims, service provider disputes, partnership disputes, claims against ratings agencies, administrators, investee companies
• Protection of intellectual property and business reputation

FCA INVESTIGATIONS & FRAUD

• Defending regulatory investigations
• Fraud and corporate crime
• Insider trading, market abuse